![]() ![]() Most seem to be at an angle, and most seem to be able to clean up on press after they've hit it with their chemistry. The scratches seem to ebb and flow in severity, frequency and location-nothing straight inline with anything in our process (or the manufacturing process, so sayeth the sales guy). We've pushed back to the pressroom, and they say nothing nefarious is going on out there, that they've even pulled plates off the rack and found scratches before they even do anything with them. So not that many people here are making the plates, and at 28 years in the company, I'm the least senior-so we've all been doing this a while and know how to handle plates. ![]() We are a small department, 6 people covering 3 shifts. The processor tech said the sales guy don't know what he's talking about and that the processor's good. The processor field tech was also here yesterday, although not at the same time as the sales manager. We had the plate territory sales manager out yesterday and he said the problem was in the processor and frankly his argument/reasons sounded weak. So we don't believe it's happening in either of those. We have imaged these plates in both our Magnus VLF via the MCU and our Trendsetter manually, and plates imaged in both units turn up the same type scratches. Our plant across town is running the same plate size, same lot that one of ours is, with no scratches reported. Out of the 4 plate sizes we run here, this is only happening on this plate size for the 1 press we have that runs it. We've tried two different lot numbers, although the time/date stamps between the two lots is only +/- 60 minutes, so the plates were all made at relatively the same time in the factory. For weeks on end we have been dealing with scratches that's been resulting in much time and sigs wasted on press to clean them up, or outright makeovers and all the time/cost associated with that. Hi all, we are running Kodak Thermal Gold plates (600x889x30mm) for one of our presses, and using an older Quartz processor.
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